Failures

Examples

• The word demagogue has been frightfully maltreated in late years, but surely here is its real meaning--to flatter the people by telling them that their failures are somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Both efforts were failures and were not renewed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Has the difficulty grown easier because of so many failures? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Book after book was added to the heap of failures, Miss Murdstone being firmly watchful of us all the time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Somebody must be responsible for their failures. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Fantastic failures of journeys occupied me until the day dawned and the birds were singing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• All these failures would have been very discouraging if I had expected much from the efforts; but I had not. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many were the complaints below, and great the chagrin of the head cook at her failures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Hence, Antietam, Gettysburg, and all the other battles that had been fought, were by them set down as failures on our part, and victories for them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had a hard time, Jo, and shed a good many bitter tears over my failures, for in spite of my efforts I never seemed to get on. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His many failures caused his friends to forsake him and he was put in prison for not paying his debts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These contests served to bring out the failures, and the still-existing wants in this line of machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I had reason to believe that in accomplishing these failures we incurred a far greater expense than if we had achieved a series of triumphs. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I see no reason for exalting the unconscious failures of other revolutions into deliberate models for the next one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Tyrannies and race hatred, national rivalries, sex problems, the difficulties of artistic endeavor, all failures, crimes, vices--there is not one which he will not relate to private capitalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The book of Judges is a melancholy catalogue of failures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I had proved my—my system to myself, and I have rigidly administered it; and I must bear the responsibility of its failures. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• For this associated life, with its experiments, its ways and means, its achievements and failures, does not go on in the sky nor yet in a vacuum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Europe drifted towards a dreary imitation and revival of the misconceived failures of the past. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We must study our failures. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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